Last week, The BRAD BLOG reported that one of the co-founders of the self-described "non-partisan" group calling themselves the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR), was "boning up on his non-partisan creds" by being employed by the White House to sell George W. Bush's Harriet Miers nomination to the American press and public.

This week, the great "non-partisan" voting rights champion, Jim Dyke, has been promoted according to a report from TIME magazine filed last week. His new job will be to "take up the slack" for Steve Schmidt, "counselor to Vice President Cheney and one of the White House's most aggressive strategists."

Schmidt is suddenly heading to Iraq for the next month, where he will, according to a report today by RAW STORY, be unavailable to take any questions regarding the mounting charges that sources within Cheney's office may have been at the heart of the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Dyke will undoubtedly remain as "non-partisan" in his new job with Dick Cheney, as he was in his previous position as press spokesperson for ACVR.

Dyke was RNC Communications Director for years, before becoming "non-partisan" enough to join with the "non-partisan" Mark F. "Thor" Hearne (National General Counsel for Bush/Cheney '04 Inc.) to found the new tax-exempt, "non-partisan" "Voting Rights" organization.

As BRAD BLOG reported some months ago, the Internet domain registration for ACVR claims to be located somewhere in Dallas, TX, despite Hearne's residence in St. Louis, Missouri, and Dyke's in South Carolina (when he's not working out of the White House). At the time of initial investigation, Dyke reported to us that the Dallas TX address given for ACVR was that of the company who created their website. He had forgotten the name of the company, despite the website having been created just days before our interview with him.

Why precisely, Dallas, TX, is given as the location of ACVR remains somewhat of a mystery. Along with who funds this shadowy organization of cynical democracy-haters. Our earlier report on their location, at least, was able to unearth a photograph of ACVR's main office, which is undoubtedly populated by very very tiny "non-partisan" Republicans:

Amongst ACVR's "non-partisan" work has been testifying before a U.S. House Administrative hearing, led by Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) on Election Irregularities in Ohio during the November '04 Presidential Election. At that hearing, held three business days after ACVR appeared for the first time on the Internet, Hearne testified to being a "long time voting rights advocate." He apparently forgot to mention his ties to Bush/Cheney '04 Inc.

ACVR was the only "voting rights" group called to testify at those hearings. As well, they sat on the Advisory Panel, and helped form the ill-fated Baker/Carter National Election Reform Commission. Recently, the ACVR released a "non-partisan" report entitled: "Democrat operatives far more involved in voter intimidation and suppression in 2004 than Republicans."

You can read that report, along with their other "non-partisan", tax-payer subsidized news and activities at their website. It's the one with Fox News' Tony Snow currently smiling on the front page.

For more information on the "non-partisan" tax-exempt ACVR scam and the snakeoil salesmen who invented it, Bush/Cheney '04 National General Counsel Mark F. "Thor" Hearne and RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke, please see BRAD BLOG's full Special Coverage of the "American Center for Voting Rights" at http://www.BradBlog.com/ACVR.

sure, uh huh, *bleep* "nonpartisan" *bleep* my *bleep*! those guys up there in the white house don't seem to be a bit bothered by an independent investigator snooping around or the possibility of indictments handed down for let's say...treason? hmm. watch the bouncing ball...

I too have been following these criminals. Their members are all out to destroy the American democracy and replace it with their own right-wing facist government.

Why do you think they got into the vote counting business?

Anyway how about filing tax evasion charges with the IRS? FIle the charges against all the GOP front groups that claim to be non-partisan when they are in fact GOP operations to destroy America and its government and institutions.

Yikes. Legalese is rather confusing, but it looks like HR-1070 does quite a bit more than just make SCOTUS judges impeachable. I thought there already was an impeachment process for SCOTUS judges anyway. I must be wong. Surely there has to already be some provisions for it. What if they commit an act of treason?

Anyway, this part...

`Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review, by appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an entity of Federal, State, or local government, or against an officer or agent of Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official or personal capacity), concerning that entity's, officer's, or agent's acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.'

...looks sort of scary. I don't like that it specifies strictly "God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government". The protections only seem to apply to a specific set of people. It certainly can't be taking atheists into account. However, the real issue I have is that it seems to be saying officer's of any level of US government can't be held accountable for any action as long as they can make a case that they were doing it in service to God. With the way these freaks have been twisting religion in this country for so long now, I don't like what they're able to "justify" (in their heads anyway) as being done in service to their God. Ofcoarse I could be completely wrong an it's really saying something to the effect of the SCOTUS can't tell you to 'Have a nice day'. I dunno, like I said, that stuff is pretty confusing to me. It's like reading Crowley or something.

Schmidt doesn't necessarily "know" something about Plame - why wouldn't he have been called to the grandy jury earlier - he travels in his position all over the world.

Correction to the Raw Story link: The initial version of this story incorrectly stated the date the Grand Jury term ends. The final day the jury is empaneled is Oct. 28.

But, keep in mind, that Fitzgeraldĺs term as U.S. Attorney expires 4 days earlier ; )

But let's say Cheney gets indicted and steps down for the good of the country, then Rice becomes the first African-American AND female VPOTUS, as well as instant candidate for 2008 - is that what you guys really want?!

Given what we know about ACVR and their relationship with Dick Cheney and the White House, the entire argument about voter fraud, which ACVR is shouting the loudest about, is bogus. That's what people have to understand! I'm glad to hear Brad talking about it on air now!

Who could possibly have a crush on Ann Coulter? They should have their head examined if so!! (For those of you not tuned in, Brad made reference to this on air.)

I was tuned into the radio show, Flo, and missed your point. You mean Cheney's Schmidt? Perhaps he does --- they're all crooks, and those who aren't crooks are thugs. I woke up this morning with the impression that this country is being run by organized crime truthfully.

How do we change that? We need better candidates --- people able to see through all mainstream crap out there, somebody like Brad!?! Yeah, that's it --- Brad for president!

Doug, you're missing the forest for the trees. Impeaching Supreme Court justices has precedents in our history - goo Google it, or, as Casey Stengel would have said, "You can look it up!" Look further into that bill if you want to know what those reptiles are up to - I have to go right now, but peruse the bill at leisure and tell me it doesn't make your hair stand on end in places. Talk about Trojan horses, IMHO.

Good story, Brad. As you know, I don't accept what anyone writes without nosing around myself to come up with my own perspective on how credible it is --- and these skeptical traits, whether stories come from the right or the left, are important for all of us, not just reporters. That's because the easiest way to divert citizens who are sniffing out the truth is to plant mostly true, but slightly off-target disinformation.

The work you've done, Brad, on the ACVR has been very eye opening. The link to the absurd report claiming that vote suppression was a Democratic tactic was the icing on the cake. Anyone who didn't click through that link should have a look.